Word: glides
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Slim as a lancet, her trim superstructure melting into as slick an air-flow contour as any Hollywood futurist ever conceived, the 112-foot triple-screw yacht Q. E. D. poised one afternoon last week ready to glide down her skids for a maiden wetting in the ebbing waters of Manhattan's malodorous Harlem River. Beneath the concave bows of this fuselage-shaped ship stood her owner and chief designer, round, rubicund Hollander Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, an old hand at aircrafting, a brand-new hand at shipbuilding...
...trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms, old-fashioned gardens with gazebos...
...Frank G. Kear and Gomer L. Davies of Washington Institute of Technology, Harry Diamond of the National Bureau of Standards, and the Bureau of Air Commerce radio development chief, W. E. Jackson. It consists of three radio transmitters, one to send a radio course beam, one to send a glide beam, and a radio marker beacon. Beacon, transmitters are housed in an automobile trailer that can be moved to the various runways on the landing field. The marker beacon is installed at the end of the runway...
...practice the pilot approaches the airport in the normal manner along the regular route beam. Twenty miles out his radio receiver, containing a reed converter, locates the course beam from the transmitter-trailer. About four miles from port at a given altitude it strikes the glide beam, a curved path of constant intensity in a field of radio waves. On the pilot's dashboard is a "cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down...
...course the vertical needle on the dial will waver to one side. If he is off the glide beam, the horizontal needle rises or falls...